The Frogs Asking for a King

Time was when the Frogs were discontented because they had no
one to rule over them: so they sent a deputation to Jupiter to ask
him to give them a King. Jupiter, despising the folly of their
request, cast a log into the pool where they lived, and said that
that should be their King. The Frogs were terrified at first by the
splash, and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; but
by and by, when they saw that the log remained motionless, one by
one they ventured to the surface again, and before long, growing
bolder, they began to feel such contempt for it that they even took
to sitting upon it. Thinking that a King of that sort was an insult
to their dignity, they sent to Jupiter a second time, and begged
him to take away the sluggish King he had given them, and to give
them another and a better one. Jupiter, annoyed at being pestered
in this way, sent a Stork to rule over them, who no sooner arrived
among them than he began to catch and eat the Frogs as fast as he
could.